Keepin' it real fake, part CLXIV: Apple's and iorgane's
By Thomas Ricker 
posted Oct 24th 2008 7:20AM
posted Oct 24th 2008 7:20AM
P.S. The video is a bit slow to load, but it's so worth the wait.
[Thanks, EL]
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I'm betting this one can tape videos and has copy/paste though..
"tape videos" ?
It's ok, you can say "record." We've moved on from VHS, no more tapes. I hear they're coming out with this new technology called Blu Ray? Whatever that is...
As an Iphone owner I'm appauled and disgusted at this abomination. It basically appears that they stole the entire iPhone OS and changed the fonts to GB/UNICODE/Big5 and then added that to an underpowered CPU (judging from the crappy speed at which things changed from screen to screen.
Then again, its not hard to see what's happened. iPhones are made in China and they've got the factories and parts to make iclones.
I think the real funny thing is, Chinese people hate buying Chinese made products. They perfer Sony, Apple or Microsoft genuine because they know its higher quality than anything made there. And I've lived in China for over 2 years so I know that's the truth. Just as any Chinese person from mainland PRC which they'd perfer...
I thought this was just another eye roller, lame ripoff until I saw that sweet video!
its just that some chinese ppl think its überkewl to buy foreignmade products, cuz foreign made products are way more expensive. Ppl tend to try to show off their wealth....
also not all chinese products are crap. its just that you (flashpoint) don't know which to choose.
I'll take one if it has copy and paste. :)
its a pretty decent clone....but it still pisses me off how china gives no rights to corporations like Apple or to their own citizens
Why would anyone give credits, rights, or pay licenses on a rip-off product?
never been to china, right? no right to citizen from a country, how is that even possible?
Since when do countries "give" rights? People are born with them, and all government can do is take them away.
Wait a second.... that looks a lot like..... oh no, it's not. Or is it?
Anyone else notice that it's 2 right hands doing the vid? One male one female?
I wonder what the two left ones do meanwhile...
Play rock, paper, scissors?
Yeah, but the first shot uses "her" left hand; after that she changes to right handed touching.
/facepalm
Ah, jeez. Organe.
Is that 'youku' video a 'youtube' clone as well?
Youku (Simplified Chinese: 优酷 pinyin yóukù, literally means "excellent and cool") is a video sharing site based in People's Republic of China.
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Why does everybody care about clones so much. Get over it? It happens everywhere in almost every product/service branch.
No chris, I think they're definitely trying to sound like youtube. Excellent and cool were plucked from a phonetical hat. But youtube is a hollow den of brain filth and I don't think you can copyright that.
literally means "excellent and cool"
Shoulda called it "BillandTedsTube"
wait that didnt come out right
Urmmm... Why orange?
More vitamin C
C for China... get it?
maybe it thinks oranges are better than apples?
maybe they are going for the obscure Portal tie-in.
A better question would be "Why spell orange as organe?"
Whats the price? Can apple take these guys out, or can they run free all over china etc..
China isn't known for acknowledging international patents or copyrights. And since any legal action would have to be through the Chinese courts, not American ones, Apple really can't do anything to stop clones like this from being produced and sold overseas.
lol this thing has like a copy of everything iphone except it sucks...
...That's kind of the point of the article.
Herro, TankYou
Herro, TankYou
herrrrrow we are chinese people pweez
haha... I like how it's a woman doing the "touching" and a man holding the phone...
I appreciate the fact that they've gone for a double-whammy, ripping off not only Apple but also Orange (the popular UK network operator), all the while keeping to their fruity theme. They get extra points for that.
ahh, I wondered about the mispelling..
I hope you know that Orange is not only an UK operator
It's ok Pat, I was aware they they operated in other countries. I just chucked the parenthesised statement for the benefit of people (read: Yanks) who weren't aware of them. Please accept my revision below:
"...ripping off not only Apple but also Orange (the popular network operator currently operating in Armenia, Austria, Belgium, France, Moldova, Poland, Portugal, Republika Srpska, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Botswana, Cameroon, Egypt , Israel, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Niger, Réunion, Senegal, Dominica, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis. List correct, according to Wikipedia, at time of writing. Please see orange.com for an up-to-date list), all the while keeping to their fruity..."
I hope this is sufficient.
Yerah, like how t-mobile are definitely german despite having a foot elsewhere.
I've got your Yank...........swingin'!
Why not Cherry? Or Banana... Coconut? How about Plantain?
The pricing can be found here:
http://66.102.9.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&u=http://store.taobao.com/shop/view_shop-f4e6e1230af75aab5e8b5d479d14e751.htm&usg=ALkJrhjoxgjXbgXA1VnpoXakybAPJrr-fA
They've also got the 'my touch', which is totally not a copy of the iTouch.
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iorgane.com%2F2008-10%2F23%2F61.html&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=zh-CN&tl=en
What's an iTouch? Is it a fake iPod Touch? Link? Price? Specs? Pics? Review?
If you're not in the market for an Apple product, then you won't have to worry about getting a fake iPhone/iTouch!
i love how its two people rather than one person touching the product...
2 right hands anyone?
there is a lot of people in china can't afford iphone, thats y they make the creepy clone. We can't blame them, all the money apple earned are going to US. The workers in china only get the tiny salaries, they build the iphone but they can't afford it.
Sad!
But unfortunately you're right!
Its true actually, when I was in China, the absolute pinacle of phone bling was the iPhone. When I was in Shanghai, anyone driving a German car (yes ... strangely they have those :P ) was holding an iPhone next to their head.
It's 1580 on taobao (chinese version of ebay), so that's like $230. It's not that cheap.
BTW, Chinese spent alot more money on phones than American (mostly due to they don't buy cars.)
There are tons more people using n95 (sold $5000 in China) in any given Chinese city than any US city I have been to.
Sooooo....because not everyone in the world can buy it they should be able to steal it and make illegitimate bastard children of an iphone? By that logic i should be able to take a BMW, change it MBW and change a few colors...bam I have my own car company, and its fine because I cant afford a BMW.
What's w/ the super long finger nail on the pinky finger of the phone-holding hand?
Its what Chinese people like. It's meant to be cool..